HAMPTON (GREAT), a parish in the lower divisio
of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER,
1 mile (W. by S.) from Evesham, containing, with
the township of Little Hampton, 324 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's
books at £7 12. 3., and in the patronage of the Dean
and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church,
dedicated to St. Andrew, is in the later style of English
architecture. The navigable river Avon is crossed by
a ferry here.